Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday announced that
his government will provide land for burial grounds for Christian
and Muslim communities in all towns and villages of the state.

He was addressing a gathering of the Christian community at a
first of its kind state-level function to mark Christmas at the
Circus Ground here.

"The state government would provide land for burial ground to both
these communities either from the panchayat land or in case of
non-availability of such land, it would even purchase it for this
social cause," he said.

Badal asked the Punjab State Minorities Commission chief Munawar
Masih, who earlier presented a memorandum of demands on behalf of
the Christian community to him, to immediately provide the list of
towns and villages without cemeteries.

The chief minister also announced the allotment of half an acre
land for the construction of a church and a community hall at
Mohali town, 10 km from here.

In a
major jolt for agitating Gujjars, the Rajasthan High Court
Wednesday rejected a petition seeking five percent reservation in
government jobs for the community.
The division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and
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Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a senior leader of
the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), will be
tried on charges of "war crimes" for having targeted a Hindu
entrepreneur and 100 others during the 1971
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Shouting pro-freedom slogans,
thousands of people in a north Kashmir hamlet Wednesday pledged
not to throw stones at security forces as long as the government
did not curb peaceful protests and took concrete steps
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Their
sirens scream, but with little effect. Many of the capital's
ambulance services that operate around 2,000 vehicles blame low
awareness, traffic jams and VVIP movements for failing to reach
their destinations in time.
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